We hope you can join us this Saturday, January 10, at 7:30 p.m. at Washington Printmakers Gallery (1732 Connecticut Ave., second floor, several blocks north of the Dupont Circle Q Street Metro exit) for the first reading of the spring season in the Ruthless Grip Poetry Series, an event featuring CHRIS TOLL and RYAN WALKER.

CHRIS TOLL lives in Baltimore. He studied with Andrei Codrescu - during Happy Hour - the array of liquor bottles displayed in gleaming rows behind the bar, and they tried to guess how many were there. Open 24 Hours will publish his new chapbook, Love Everyone.

Originally from Arnold, Maryland, RYAN WALKER lives in the District of Columbia with his parrotlet, Arnold. He works as a web editor and consultant for various environmental nonprofits and plays ultimate frisbee with gusto. His poetry has appeared in 6500 and Anomaly and is forthcoming in Ambit. He has a chapbook forthcoming that might be called "Honor System Trains" on a press that might be called "Interrupting Cow".

To cover gallery costs, Washington Printmakers readings have a $3 cover, but exceptions can be made for anyone in dire straits.